A small gift

These are some of the journaling notes I have been working on (and a few doodles to fill in the blanks.) I made 3 pages and 2 individual notes which are all available to download and print here. You can use these in your art journal, in your scrapbook or any other artwork of your choice. This is my gift to you. No reason, no special event. Just a gift. The only thing I ask in return is a note or a comment if you DO use these in your work. And a link to the artwork would be nice too.

Enjoy!

I know it's late...

... and I should be in bed already. But I'm a night creature. Which probably explains my love of everything vampire. But that's not why I'm writing.

All around the blogosphere, people are talking about resolutions, goals, intentions. People are choosing words to live by. And what do you know, I'm people! Yes yes, as hard as it may seem to some of you, I am actually human! Anyway, back to the point. This year, I am not making any resolutions. Because, well, I never keep them so what's the point anyway. Last year, I unofficially chose a word to live by. In 2008, I wanted to focus on everything that was "new" to me. I did a pretty good job. Of course, writing daily in my "every day brings something new" journal did help me to attain this goal. Well, this year, I officially choose the word "change" as in "be the change you want to see in the world". Well, all kinds of change really. I want to change some habits, be them good or bad. I want to change my perspective one life because, to be honest, lately it hasn't been all that bright. I want bring more changes in my life. Good changes, obviously. So that's what I'll focus on in 2009.

I have no official artistic project for this new year. No Daily Art Card. No "every day" journal. Nope. Nothing of the sort. I do want to do my best at creating something every day though. And having 4 art journals in the works and an altered book should definitely make this easy. And let's not talk about all the swaps I signed up for (though most of them are due in March so I still have plenty of time to work on them and get them sent out in time.)

Talking about art journals, I worked in 2 of mine today (meaning January 1st, obviously) and in my altered book. And I'm "trying" to create my own journaling notes for scrapbooking, which is actually harder than I thought it would be. I have this problem where I see the finished product in my head and it's all pretty and perfect but when I try to make it so, it turns out, well, less than perfect though sometimes pretty. This has always been a problem with me actually. And I'm not a perfectionnist, far from it. But when something doesn't turn out as I had envisionned it, it's kind of a let down. Know what I mean?

Anyway, enough babbling. I should be going to bed, though I'm not sleepy at all. Maybe I'll read or write a bit. I did tell Hanna that I'd love to get back into poetry so maybe I'll try that, who knows?

Today's art: mindless doodling on a lazy evening, while watching DVDs of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I do like the circles in the cloud shape...

Field of pretties

Some months ago, I found a tutorial online to make these cute little felt flowers. Unfortunately, I don't remember where I saw the tutorial but I do remember how to make the flowers. My first one was that light lavender one. All the others were done in the last few days. Just trying to keep my hands busy!

If you know where the tutorial for these flowers is, please let me know and I will link to it.

Edited Feb. 8th: At last I found the tutorial! See it at Jeweled Elegance, here.

Happy Holidays

Christmas eve was spent at my parents' house with my brother. We had a delicious meal and then unwrapped gifts. Many gifts in my case! I received pretty much everything I had put on my list, which I didn't expect would actually happen. I'm happy about it all. I've been playing with my new Nintendo DS all afternoon yesterday and some today. I started watching my DVDs. I've used one of the embossing powders for swap cards.

Yesterday, my brother and I were on our way to a family lunch, 2 hours out of town. As soon as we were out of Montreal, his car got a flat tire. He doesn't have a spare (Mini's are too small for a spare to fit in) so we had to get towed to the garage. By the time we got back home, it wasn't worth getting in my car to go to the family lunch. So after explaining the situation to our parents, we both went our separate ways and spent Christmas day on our own. I took this time to complete 2 swaps which is a good thing.

I also worked on something for the One World One Heart giveaway. I decided to participate again. It's such a fun event and it did allow me to find new blogs I probably wouldn't have found otherwise. So be sure to come back on January 19th when I'll be posting my giveaway (the winner(s) will be announced February 12th.)

I've finished reading the Twilight books. They've renewed my passion for vampires. So it's a good thing that I received the whole DVD collection of Buffy the Vampire Slayer for Christmas!

Today's art is my Daily Art Card for Desember 24th, done before going to bed, representing most of the gifts I received from my family. And yes, that IS a sock monkey.

A nice cup of...

Hello blog readers. I'm sorry that I haven't been around much in the past few weeks (not to say months.) I can't promise to be around much more in the coming weeks. Not that my holidays are busy. Because they're not. I just don't have the energy to do much lately. Not that I'm sick. Because I'm not. And it's not like much is happening in my life to drain me. Because, well, it's not. Happening, that is. Except that I finally read Twilight and saw the movie last night with CeeCee and bought the rest of the series today. So I'll just escape reality for a few hours and join my new vampire friends for a while.

Today's art is a 4x4 mixed media chunky page made for the "Gotta Have Coffee" swap on atcsforall.com. Enjoy!

(Désolé, pas de traduction en français aujourd'hui.)

Nothing deep

A page in my latest art journal. It's 5"x7", made of recycled paper. Every day I draw, doodle and write about what I see, do, think, etc. Nothing deep. Just every day stuff. All in brown.

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Une page de mon dernier journal d'artiste. Il mesure 5"x7" et est fait de papiers recyclés. Chaque jour je dessine, gribouille et écris ce que je vois, fais, pense, etc. Rien de profond. Juste des choses de tous les jours. Tout en brun.

Well hello there!

Just posting to let you all know I'm still alive. November has been a harsh month but now that it's over, I feel a lot better and I'm ready to tackle my to-do list.

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J'écris pour vous laisser savoir que je suis toujours vivante. Novembre fut un mois difficile mais maintenant que c'est terminé, je me sens beaucoup mieux et prête à entreprendre ma liste de choses à faire.



Photograph by me of Diesel and myself.